Agroecological food systems will not achieve optimal performance if farming systems are constituted exclusively of small-scale units. Mechanisms for scaling up are essential. This session explored how and why the state government of Andhra Pradesh, an Indian state, works with women self-help groups (SHG) to support millions of farmers in transition...

The Food Ethics Council magazine made a collection of articles that addresses key questions about how the research agenda is set in food and farming, that unmasks and challenges the dominant research paradigm, and that highlights inclusive alternatives to deliver public good. Among the inclusive alternatives, Michel Pimbert argues that there is...

During a convention organized by the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), international experts endorsed the significant efforts to boost agroecological and natural farming approaches in India. NITI Aayog highlighted the transformation and renewal of agriculture in India, addressing agroecology and natural farming as an alternative that can ease the excessive...

Agricultural intensification during the last decades has caused a remarkable decline in the populations of birds that breed in European agro-ecosystems. In Spain, this process is affecting species closely related to the Mediterranean cereal pseudo-steppes, whose main world populations are found, precisely, in the Iberian peninsula. In recent years, several...

Traditional Chiloé island agriculture is a highly integrated and self-sufficient system. It relies on the agrobiodiversity supported by traditional agricultural practices to efficiently use natural resources from the sea, forest and livestock for soil health improvement and for integrated pest management. The Zhejiang Huzhou system includes traditional and agroecological knowledge through...